Instead, she began working to support herself, starting out as a secretary, then ground staff, and eventually, flight stewardess. According to Peter Middleton in The Next Generation: ‘Francis never recovered from his triple blow. The Middletons have three children, two daughters and a son. Michael middleton peter francis middleton. [113] Sir William Henry Clarke was a City of Leeds councillor alongside Olive's father. Primeros años de vida Catalina nació en el Royal Berkshire Hospital en la ciudad de Reading, el 9 de enero de 1982. Michael Francis Middleton. [116] Members of the Lupton family owned the Newton Park and Beechwood estates in Leeds, the latter being the family seat where, for decades, the "whole family would gather". [11] [12] Peter Middleton's son is entrepreneur Michael Francis Middleton whose children are: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , socialite and columnist Pippa Matthews and businessman James Middleton . [114][115] In 1921, Richard Noel Middleton became a director of the company his wife had inherited from her father. [149][150] Whereas the family eventually sub-divided Newton Park,[151] the Beechwood estate was entailed to Olive's eldest brother, Francis Ashford Lupton who lacked a male heir. The oak represents England and strength as well as the family's home district of West Berkshire. https://belgique.fandom.com/wiki/Family_of_Catherine,_Duchess_of_Cambridge Dans les années 1970, alors qu'il travaille pour la compagnie aérienne British Airways,.. Michael Francis Middleton naît le 23 juin 1949 à Leeds, dans le nord de l'Angleterre. At this time the Middletons purchased Oak Acre, a Tudor-style manor house in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Olive Middleton's father was a landowner[124] and also a lead magistrate; Francis Martineau Lupton dealt with probate matters for the Leeds and West Riding Court. of Horden, Durham", "Proof Kate Middleton IS related to Queen Mother: Duchess to view cabinet proving ancestry", "Duchess of Cambridge shares Queen Mother's County Durham ancestor according to new research", "The Middletons, the Luptons and HRH The Duchess of Cambridge", The Ancestry of H.R.H. [157] Olive Middleton's first cousin, Leeds Lady Mayoress Elinor Lupton, regularly played host to the Princess Royal and attended a music concert together in Leeds on 27 May 1943. [117] The Lupton family are described in the Leeds City Council's photographic archive as "woollen manufacturers and landed gentry – a political and business dynasty"; Olive's cousin, Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton)[118] had been invited to the coronation of King George V in 1911. Reports suggest that Catherine and the Queen Mother's blood cousinship was the reason Catherine wore the Queen Mother's tiara when she wed Prince William. [172][173], Michael Middleton's family tree is linked, via his Leeds-born cousin, Lady Bullock (née Barbara Lupton),[174] to William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1782–1783. of Horden, Durham. He is he father of Kate and Pippa Middleton. The family of four moved to Amman, Jordan for Michael’s job as a British Airways manager. [186][187], "Middleton family" redirects here. [105] Her Bletchley Park colleague and friend, Lady Body (née Marion Graham), recalled in 2014 that she had shared a "rather special moment" with Valerie: "Our superior officer, Commander Williams, came into the room smiling and he said, 'Well done, girls. In 1982, they welcomed their first child, daughter Catherine Elizabeth or Kate, the future Duchess of Cambridge. They both worked hard to make the company succeed, and for a while, it was their only source of income! Source citations are included at the bottom of the page. [153] After their deaths, (Elizabeth in 1977, Elinor in 1979), their nephew, Tom, inherited Beechwood and in 2016, Tom's children retain some of the Beechwood Estate. Immediate Family: Son of Capt Peter Francis Middleton; Private; Valerie Middleton and Private. In 1987, while Carole was pregnant with James, she started the family company. After the war, Middleton joined British European Airways as a pilot, but remained in the reconstituted RAFVR, receiving a reserve commission as a flying officer on 12 August 1949. [142][144][143][145], Olive Middleton's father, Francis Martineau Lupton, was the eldest son and heir of Francis Lupton and grew up initially at Potternewton Hall on the family's Newton Park Estate[148] and then their Georgian Beechwood Estate, in Roundhay. Of course, Kate Middleton’s father is very happy to have Prince William as a son-in-law, but the sheer amount of media coverage on their wedding day made him a bit, “Thank goodness that’s over, and I’ll never have to do it again.”. His father, Captain Peter Middleton (1920–2010), was a pilot who flew alongside Prince Philip as the Duke's co-pilot on a two-month flying tour of South America in 1962. [158][159][160][161], Two of Olive Middleton's uncles were Lord Mayors of Leeds: Hugh Lupton and Sir Charles Lupton who was Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire County (West Riding) when Princess Mary's father-in-law, Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood, was his Lord Lieutenant. [86][87][88], Middleton boarded at Clifton College[89] and then studied English at New College, Oxford. Valerie attended an English boarding school and later studied at a private secretarial college. Michael Francis Middleton is in the 2nd generation of the family tree for Catherine Middleton (Ahnentafel #2). [55][56] The archives at Clifton record that Michael Middleton was a praepostor, the title for a college prefect. A signal has been intercepted from Tokyo to Geneva and it's the signal that the Japanese are surrendering'. Grandfather of Prince George of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. [111][30][112] In 1919, Richard Noel Middleton retired as a solicitor from the legal practice in Leeds he shared with partner Sir William Henry Clarke who had served his clerkship in Leeds with Richard Noel Middleton's father, John William Middleton. [175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182], According to genealogists Patrick Cracroft-Brennan and Anthony Adolph, Michael Middleton's children descend, via their mother, from Elizabeth Plantagenet, King Edward IV's illegitimate daughter by Elizabeth Lucy, via Sir Thomas Blakiston Conyers, 9th Bt.